"Marketing Rural Communities to Attract and Retain Workers in a Changing Economy"

Welcome to the Great Plains Rural Community Marketing Website!

You will find initial research information conducted in Nebraska from 2006 to 2008 on new resident recruitment and retention. Also included is the current three-state integrated project on community marketing that was started in 2008 and will be completed in 2012. Both projects were funded by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Research Initiative (NRI) Rural Development grants.